The Strangest Thing About Software

  • Authors:
  • Tim Menzies;David Owen;Julian Richardson

  • Affiliations:
  • West Virginia University;West Virginia University;Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Although there are times when random search is dangerous and should be avoided, software analysis should start with random methods because they are so cheap, moving to the more complex methods only when random methods fail.